The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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wow, when you call up the specter of Chuck, it dredges up all sorts of riff raff out of the old Cafe woodwork.

now, we will find out if we have our old telepathy if Lau wanders by!

I just couldn't resist.....

Swiped this to hang up in the Cafe...

Another priceless gem I think belongs in the Cafe......

SCOTTISH FRUITCAKE RECIPE.

You'll need the following:
1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
4 large brown eggs
2 cups of dried fruit
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
1 cup of nuts
1 bottle of whisky.

Sample the whisky to check for quality.
Take a large bowl. Check the whisky again. To be sure it's the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and beat again.
Make sure the whisky is still okay. Cry another tup. Turn off the mixer. Beat two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Mix on the tuner. If the fired druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the whisky to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares? Check the whisky. Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon. Of sugar or something. Whatever you can find.
Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window. Check the whisky again and go to bed. Who the hell likes fruitcake anyway??

Richie,
here are some garden pictures. I was pretty ill in early 2012 and planted this garden as my commitment to health. I was reading Joseph Campbell and was determined to finally find my bliss. I am pretty sure I found it, too.

(The style is a fusion of French Intensive and Stone Broke Hippie Shops in Lowe's Lumber Stacks and Clearance Garden Department.)

Merle's Perpetual Salad bowl, older plants on the left, younger plants on the right.

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Two Green Globe Artichokes and a Purple (Violetta) Artichoke, first year already 5 feet high!

Merle's little bit of Oregon

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Nice garden, Merle. I'll have some more pictures up soon.

very nice garden, merle. i'll have to get photos of ours, over at the community garden site. it looks like a concentration camp. we have deer, rabbits, gopers, voles, squirrels and god only knows what else attacking all the plots, so.... ours has a double-perimeter fence, builder's cloth buried a foot deep under the raised beds, one bed with complete wire cloth enclosure (including the top) for root crops and one with an open top currently covered with bird netting. the onions came in and were great (and are now gone). the turnips came in and were yucky (hey, never had one, didn't know!). the beets are almost gone now, also nice. the carrots continue. the tomatoes got blight but are sort of recovering, most of the garlic died for unknown reasons, the russian giant sunflowers are stunted to about two feet high in one planting and look like they're gonna flower that way, still growing in the other planting. something ate the scarlet runners, nothing likes the catmint, and life goes on.

purple carrots are interesting things.

Everyone else just built big chicken-wire vaults. It does look like a plant prison, but there is no other way. Literally, there's a gopher or a vole hole in every square foot of space out there....

Does anyone know how to get rid of sand spurs? And what to do if caterpillars eat up your lovely flowering plants?